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porades.] [Footnote 132: Evodias succeeded St Peter as Bishop of Antioch; Ignatius, disciple of St John, succeeded Evodias (_Eusebius_).] [Footnote 133: The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.] [Footnote 134: "And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel" (1 Kings xviii. 42).] [Footnote 135: The wind which blew when St Paul was shipwrecked, now called Levanter, from its violence.] [Footnote 136: [Greek: Oroon ep oinopa ponton] (_Homer_.)] [Footnote 137: Seven Churches of Asia.] [Footnote 138: Adriatic.] [Footnote 139: Sardis, now Sart. Thyatira, now Ist-kissar, or White Castle.] [Footnote 140: A fine expression of Sharon Turner.] [Footnote 141: Priests of Cybele.] [Footnote 142: There were a hundred altars to the goddess in Cyprus.] [Footnote 143: The names of the illustrious visitors who heard the sound, twelve centuries past, may be seen in Pocock.] [Footnote 144: The pyramids. The first time the author met the celebrated Dr Clarke, before the publication of his Travels, the first question eagerly asked was, "Of what colour are the pyramids?" To his surprise, the answer was, "As white as snow." But I have used the word "pale," as more in harmony with the picture, and less startling.] [Footnote 145: The Hermes of the Greeks, the Mercury of the Romans, the Teut of the Celts, and the great teacher of the one unknown God, before Egypt sank into the grossest superstition.] [Footnote 146: Perhaps the idea may be fanciful, but, to my ear, nothing more clearly reflects the image than the very words of the sentence-- "R[']an [)]al[']ong [)]up[']on th[)]e gr[']ound" Handel, in his sublime Oratorio, "Israel in Egypt," seems to have felt this.] [Footnote 147: Thomas, as by tradition we receive, chose Parthia; Andrew, Scythia (_Eusebius_).] [Footnote 148: "Scythicae non mitior ara Dianae" (_Lucan_).] [Footnote 149: See the exquisite tragedy of "Iphigenia in Tauris," by Euripides. Euripides may be alluded to here, as St Paul quoted Menander.] [Footnote 150: "Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him" (Acts xvii. 18),--a singular and most interesting circumstance.] [Footnote 151: Epicurus.] [Footnote 152: The Hill of Mars. How striking the coincidence! Ovid says-- "Mavortis in Arce."] [Footnote 153: Temple of Minerva, on the Acropolis.] [Footnote 154: The celebrated gardens of Epicurus.] [Footnote 155: Philippi and Thes
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